Singapore legislation
Clause 6
Clause 6
Other acts endangering or likely to endanger safety of aircraft
(1)
Subject to subsections (5) and (6), any person who unlawfully and intentionally destroys or damages any property to which this section applies or interferes with the operation of such property, where the destruction, damage or interference is likely to endanger the safety of aircraft in flight, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2)
Subsection (1) applies to any property used for the provision of air navigation facilities including any land, building or ship so used, and including any apparatus or equipment so used, whether it is on board an aircraft or elsewhere.
(3)
Subject to subsections (4) and (5), any person who intentionally communicates any information which is false, misleading or deceptive in a material particular, where the communication of the information endangers the safety of an aircraft in flight or is likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft in flight, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(4)
It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) to prove —
that he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that the information was true; or
that, when he communicated the information, he was lawfully employed to perform duties which consisted of or included the communication of information and that he communicated the information in good faith in the performance of those duties.
(5)
Subsections (1) and (3) do not apply to the commission of any act unless either the act is committed in Singapore, or, where the act is committed outside Singapore —
the person committing the act is a citizen of Singapore; or
the commission of the act endangers or is likely to endanger the safety in flight of a civil aircraft registered in Singapore or chartered by demise to a lessee whose principal place of business, or (if he has no place of business) whose permanent residence is in Singapore; or
the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which is so registered or so chartered; or
the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which lands in Singapore with the person who committed the act still on board.
(6)
Subsection (1) also does not apply to any act committed outside Singapore and so committed in relation to property which is situated outside Singapore and is not used for the provision of air navigation facilities in connection with international air navigation, unless the person committing the act is a citizen of Singapore.
(7)
In this section, “civil aircraft” means any aircraft other than an aircraft used in military, customs or police service.